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1946-1989
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The Cold War from before birth until age 9
  
1952-2050
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Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from before birth until after timeline
  
1977-1980
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James Earl Carter Jr president of US from before birth until age 0
  
1980
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Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 0
  
1981
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1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 1
  
1981
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1st female supreme court justice at age 1
  
1981-1988
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Ronald Reagan president of US from age 1 to 8
  
1981
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IBM PC ships at age 1
  
1982
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1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 2
  
1983
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Compact Disks at age 3
  
1983
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Bluford 1st black in space at age 3
  
1983
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Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 3
  
1984
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Apple Macintosh Ships at age 4
  
1984
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HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 4
  
1985
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Amiga Computer Ships at age 5
  
1986
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Halley's Comet at age 6
  
1986
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Mir space station deployed at age 6
  
1986
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Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 6
  
1986
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Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 6
  
1987
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2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 7
  
1988
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Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 8
  
1989
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Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 9
  
1989
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Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 9
  
1989-1992
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George Bush president of US from age 9 to 12
  
1989
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Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 9
  
1989
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Fall of Berlin Wall at age 9
  
1989
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US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 9
  
1990
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World Wide Web at age 10
  
1990
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Hubble space telescope deployed at age 10
  
1991
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Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 11
  
1991-2003
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8th Cholera pandemic from age 11 to 23
  
1992
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Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 12
  
1993
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Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 13
  
1993
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Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 13
  
1993-2000
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William Clinton president of US from age 13 to 20
  
1994
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South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 14
  
1995
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American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 15
  
1996
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DVD video recordings at age 16
  
1997
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Mars pathfinder lands at age 17
  
1997
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Cloning living beings at age 17
  
1998
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Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 18
  
1998
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US attacks Iraq, again at age 18
  
1998
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1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 18
  
1999
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US attacks Bosnia at age 19
  
2000
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'2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 20
  
2000
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Working draft of human genome completed at age 20
  
2000
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Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 20
  
2000
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North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 20
  
2001
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Wikipedia goes online at age 21
  
2001
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X-Box console released at age 21
  
2001
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Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 21
  
2001
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Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000 deaths at age 21
  
2001
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US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 21
  
2001
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Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 21
  
2001
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Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 21
  
2001-2009
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George W. Bush president of US from age 21 to 29
  
2002
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Euro currency introduced at age 22
  
2002
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10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 22
  
2002
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Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 22
  
2003
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28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 23
  
2003
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Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 23
  
2004
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Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000 - dec 26 at age 24
  
2004
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Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 24
  
2004
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Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander at age 24
  
2004
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10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 24
  
2004
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Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 24
  
2005
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Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 25
  
2005
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NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 25
  
2005
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Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 25
  
2005
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Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 25
  
2005
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Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 25
  
2005
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Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 25
  
2006
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Israel attacks Lebanon at age 26
  
2006
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Americans lose habeas corpus at age 26
  
2006
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Wii ships from Nintendo at age 26
  
2006
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PS3 ships from Sony at age 26
  
2007
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Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright at age 27
  
2008-2010
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Global Recession from age 28 to 30
  
2009-2012
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Obama president of USA from age 29 to 32
  
2009
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Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth at age 29
  
2010
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Haiti earthquake - 220k dead, 300k injured at age 30
  
2011
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Japan 9.1 earthquake and Tsuinami - 10K dead at age 31
  

 

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